The Mouse Husband

A hardcover copy of There Is No Antimemetics Division: A Novel by qntm

I read through this on the wiki back in 2023. There are very few stories I’ve enjoyed enough to read a second time. That being said, I look forward to my revisit. @qntm.org

The W-index: a novel tool to evaluate gender equity in STEM research https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685415v1

All roads lead to Rome. All railroads lead to Chicago.

I somehow completely avoided any mention of the Flood in-game until then. My first ever Xbox game was Reach, I got ODST not long after, played only the first couple levels of CE Anniversary, and got 4 and 5 on release. No idea how that happened.

Fun fact: Despite having been an Halo fan since 2010 when my brother and I got an Xbox 360 for Christmas, I didn’t even know what the Flood was until I played the entirety of the Master Chief Collection in 2020.

If I wanted to take revenge on someone, I wouldn’t injure or poison them, nor would I sabotage their reputation. Instead, I’d inject them with a ridiculous amount of allicin so they’d have a very strong taste of garlic in their mouth for a day or more

I always felt it was weird that conservative talking heads unanimously do that too. Can’t tell if it’s a genuine lack of knowledge on their part, peer pressure to conform, and/or a deliberate attempt to obscure its actual meaning and make it sound like a group with foreign origins

HUGE potential breakthrough in neurodegenerative disorders this week—a gene therapy Phase I/II clinical trial shows 75% reduction in Huntington’s onset after 3 years! It isn’t peer-reviewed yet, but this may extend patients’ lifespans from ~45 years to old age! uniqure.gcs-web.com/node/12261/pdf

I think the world would be a better place and people would be generally less awful if everyone worked customer service at least one point in their lives. Make it so you can’t receive your high school diploma until you work at least 240 hours at Domino’s or something

My grandparents are in their late 80's. My grandma reads (or listens to audio books) every day. My grandpa does not. The difference in their cognition is striking.

"Use it or lose it" applies to your brain too.

This is basically the start of All Tomorrows

God works fast but Randall Munroe works faster

Panel 4 from XKCD #3133 https://www.xkcd.com/3133/ Two stick figures watch two roombas 69. Figure 1: “There’s nothing NSFW about this, and yet it’s the most NSFW thing I’ve ever seen.” Figure 2: “Yeah, my YouTube DIY video about it got demonetized.”

There are probably other fossilized coral rocks found on shores around the world, but Petoskey stones specifically can only be found around Lake Michigan!

Fun fact you can only find these in the great lakes. I think these also glow under a UV light if I'm not mistaken? But they're fossilized coral - can find em in Lake Michigan. Use a UV flashlight to spot them and Yooperlite - another special MI rock. (I like rocks)

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A petoskey stone, before and after it gets polished. The fossil pattern is more pronounced after polishing.

Polish your Petoskey stones!

What originally motivated me to go to grad school was a desire to develop a non-addictive painkiller that was as affective as opioids. My aspirations have changed in the last few years, but it’s very uplifting to see other people are working toward that regardless!

I kind of wish I just stuck with Windows 10 tbh

The cool thing about Microsoft Copilot is that not only does it seem to take more technical knowledge and effort than I’d consider reasonable to fully remove it from your computer, but every time your computer updates, Windows adds it back.

If a midwest emo track isn’t made in the the basements of cornfield-adjacent suburbia then it’s just sparkling math rock

Cool, will there also be a registry for employers who make fake job postings and/or ghost their applicants? No, you say?

I’m not necessarily against long-form tweets (I actually think they’re easier to read than a thread) but she used 5000 characters to ultimately communicate nothing substantial

Like I get that getting flamed on the internet isn’t fun but if you have enough influence to reach 38k followers with a single tweet you kind of have a moral obligation to only say things you actually believe in and can stand behind

Or at least admit that it was a bad take

She did the classic Twitterism of walking back her original thought and acting like everyone else just misinterpreted what she said or something

The Seal of Confession does not apply when the priest has reason to believe the person confessing will seriously harm themself and/or others after the sacrament is finished. These religious leaders are violating their own supposed beliefs by opposing laws like this.

pleased to announce that the McLaughlin Lab will be investing in bird-based backups for our bird genome sequences, we really think this is going to...take off (*sad trombone noise*)

THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
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Sour Patch Kids of the internet

We need to add internet safety back into elementary school education because why did so many people think giving your government ID to a company you’ve never heard of wasn’t a terrible idea